Tag: the battle of wounded knee

If history has shown us one thing, it is that this system fears a culture that honors the earth as sacred simply because they will not participate in its destruction and they will die to protect it? this system will kill whole races of peoples to get that wiped...

A few days ago I posted a short blurb on my Facebook page reminding Haudenosaunee people that our Confederacy has a long standing treaty relationship with the Sioux Nations. I was thoroughly surprised by the positive response I got from folks all over Turtle Island as this post shared...

December 29 marks the anniversary of the Battle of Wounded Knee. This 1890 conflict is what many people call the last battle of the Indian wars in the United States. That is inaccurate, however. In 1889, the U.S. government divided land that belonged to the Lakota into five The...

OGLALA, S.D. -- Dewey Beard was the last survivor of the Battle of the
Little Big Horn: a warrior, rancher, actor and respected elder. His
eventful life, which spanned a century, is still remembered by friends and
family.
The more Leonard Little Finger read the letter, the less it made sense. His
grandfather, had...

Mainstream press had a bumper crop of anti-Indian articles last year. The Wall Street Journal seemed to be on a holy mission to portray Indian people and issues in a negative light. So did myriad print and broadcast reporters and commentators in Connecticut and at least half of shouting...

When President George W. Bush gave a speech in the Black Hills of South Dakota recently, boosting the Congressional campaign of his old friend Gov. William Janklow, he had scarcely a word to say about Indian issues. In marked contrast, another Republican president came to the Black Hills, land...

LAWRENCE, Kan. - A large part of the recent "Celebration of the Horse" in Commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana was a fund-raiser to help preserve its most famous 'survivor' in a display at the University of Kansas.Various accounts from who...